{
  "id": 12551019,
  "title": "Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/spanner-omni-reaches-ga-replacing-googles-atomic-clocks-and-file",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-07T04:43:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/spanner-omni-deploy-anywhere-ga/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronization. There is no availability SLA, and practitioners are pricing the move in tail latency and operational toil. By Steef-Jan Wiggers",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}